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Lluís Companys

Articles tagged with: Lluís Companys

14 April 2021 08:33 PM

A crowd gathered in Barcelona's Plaça Sant Jaume to celebrate the declaratoin of the Republic on April 14, 1931 (by Banda de Barcelona)

Proclamation of the Catalan Republic: 90 years on

Exhibitions, official events and criticism of the crown mark anniversary of the only democratic period prior to the current one

Society

20 November 2020 07:17 PM

Carles Vallejo, president of the association of former political prisoners of Francoism, November 17, 2020 (by ACN)

PODCAST: Open Wounds – Dealing with the Francoist Past

45 years after the death of dictator Francisco Franco many issues remain unresolved 

Society

15 October 2020 10:20 AM

Lluís Companys (WikiCommons)

80th anniversary of Catalan president’s execution at hands of Francoist regime

Lluís Companys, defender of the Spanish Second Republic, honored with Stolpersteine stone

Society

15 September 2020 05:14 PM

Spanish vice president, Carmen Calvo, September 15, 2020 (by Moncloa/José María Cuadrado)

Spain's cabinet approves 'Historical Memory Law' in first step to annul Franco-era convictions

Pending parliamentary approval, law will ban organizations sympathetic to dictatorship

Society

09 September 2020 12:42 PM

Official poster of the 75th anniversary of Lluis Companys' execution commemoration events

New historic memory bill annuls Francoist sentence of executed Catalan president

Future Spanish law to ban public funded organizations exalting dictators, such as Fundación Nacional Francisco Franco

Politics

15 October 2019 01:33 PM

Members of the Catalan government during an act at Montjuïc cemetary, where former president Lluís Companys is buried (by Sílvia Jardí)

First jailed democratic government in EU, says VP

Pere Aragonès claims imprisonment of independence leaders and shooting of Lluís Companys in 1940 were both for "political reasons"

Politics

15 October 2018 11:28 AM

Members of the Catalan government, Parliament and the Council of Barcelona pay tribute to President Lluís Companys (by Pau Cortina, ACN)

Catalan political class pays tribute to president executed by Franco regime

Representatives lay flowers at the grave of Lluís Companys on Montjuïc, where the Catalan leader was executed by firing squad 78 years ago

Politics

19 October 2016 06:44 PM

Family picture of the victims of Francoism with the Catalan President, Carles Puigdemont; the President of the Catalan Parliament, Carme Forcadell, and the Catalan Ministers Mundó and Romeva (by ANC).

Parliament calls to annul summary courts-martials during Franco regime

The Catalan Parliament passed this Wednesday a bill aimed at annulling all the express judicial sentences of the Franco regime, known as summary court-martials. 78,000 people were condemned between 1939 and 1975, 20,000 of them through these...

Politics Highlights

15 October 2015 01:53 PM

Catalan President, Artur Mas, after leaving Barcelona Courthouse last October (by ACN)

Mas before the Court: "I'm the only one responsible for the 9-N consultation"

Catalan President, Artur Mas, appeared this Thursday before the court, after being summonsed by Catalonia's Supreme Court for organising the 9-N symbolic vote in 2014. "The success and international impact of the 9-N consultation is what...

Politics Highlights

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